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“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.”

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Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.”

Poetry Invisible Visible

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.”

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Author:Jean Cocteau

“Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.”

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Book:Our Lady of the Flowers

Source: Our Lady of the Flowers

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.”

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Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”

Writing Poetry Invisible Poetry Is Keepsakes

Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960